Race Car Paper

Because your kids draw it, they get to rule the road!

ADDED July 19, 2009

Length: 20 minutes to an hour or two

Parental Involvement:  Explain the idea. Help line up the pages and possibly help tape the paper together.

Kids Should Be Able to: Do some basic drawing.  Be imaginative!

 

Boys love race cars and trucks, right?  My kids certainly do.  (You better keep your eyes open when you visit my house -- there's always a danger of being smacked by a speeding toy car or truck.  Please be careful.)

At our house, we have some plastic tracks for our fleet of toy vehicles, but there are two problems with toy roads and tracks.  First, toy tracks get very expensive very quickly.  To have a sizable track for your kids' cars to use, you've got to spend at least fifty dollars, and possibly much more.  That's not so fun.  Secondly, kids tire of driving on the same old tracks.  Variety is more fun.

We're proud to announce an awe-inspiring, jaw-dropping solution to both those problems:  Race Track Paper.

It's so easy, too.  Today, why not take a bunch of blank paper and have your kids draw their own tracks?  We put the paper on the floor along with some crayons . . . and off the kids go!

This activity, making Race Track Paper, is also very creative.  Kids can draw all sorts of curvy or straight roads.  They can create bridges, tunnels, dead ends, one way streets -- whatever they want.  And along the route, they can draw houses, horses, forests, fairies -- anything!

We have the kids draw the roads on one piece of paper and then link it up to the roads on another page.  We scotch tape them together because everything can get scatter once the Matchbox or Hotwheels hit the crayoned road.

Creative, inexpensive and fun!  This activity is great, but in my house, it's still dangerous when the toy cars are in motion.  Let's just say my boys aren't too concerned with the safety of pedestrians who get in the way.
 

art supplies needed,

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